More people, more paddling, more often.
I was making plans for my time off in August, when Moose rang me out of the blue to tell me there was one space left on a canoe trip he was leading for Beyond Adventure in the north-west highlands, a seven day trip. “Sweet, perfect, count me in,” I say, with no knowledge of…
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Todays story comes from our good friend Stephen who runs Scottish Rock & Water based in Newtonmore. Stephen and his buddy Ben headed over to the Scottish Islands of Lewis and Harris for a canoe adventure which very few people have probably ever done. Lewis and Harris, one of the islands that I had always…
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As an adventure sports coach you meet hundreds of groups of people that you get to take on epic adventures, sometimes those groups are super memorable and sometimes it’s the journey. In this case it was both. It’s early August 2013 and Moose and I are about to meet our group, the team of 12…
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“Chuck us another can” I say to Moose from my sofa. He reaches down and opens the small fridge we’ve adopted as a beer fridge takes out a can of Tennent’s for me, as well as one for himself and chucks it over to me before opening his. He never leaves his own sofa. This…
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None of us ever thought that day would bring what it did, the dark murky water of the Tana beneath our boats would give us an experience that would change our lives… I was joined that day by one of the local Kenyan paddlers, Wilson. We had paddled the 7 km section leading back to…
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2019 was a big year for PaddleMore with lots of background work bringing us to finally going live in October, but it’s not the end of the secret projects, so keep watching as we roll into the new year. 2020 is shaping up to be an excellent year for us. You’ll no doubt have read…
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Our very first blog post! We’re really excited to start sharing stories and thoughts from members of the paddling community. Stories are so often cut short, limited to 140 characters nowadays, or briefly discussed at the pub after a long day on the water. We think stories are there to be shared far and wide.…
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